It’s the latest eyebrow-raising comment the Republican vice presidential candidate has made.

In a contentious and misleading post on social media, JD Vance, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, launched an attack on Vice President Kamala Harris’s support for LGBTQ+ inclusivity. Vance falsely accused Algerian Olympic boxer Imane Khelif of being transgender, causing widespread condemnation and backlash from human rights advocates.

  • Bone@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    This is why I will never understand Republicans. The vitriol and bigotry is on full display and some of them don’t bother to acknowledge it. All these “good people” just looking on. Probably still bothsidesing everything.

    Edit: Oh, and anyone else not of the Republican persuasion who also doesn’t factor these things in. I’m mostly talking about these people.

    • Seleni@lemmy.world
      22·
      1 month ago

      I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice. -Martin Luther King Jr

      It seems that sort is equally bad when it comes to letting Nazis in the door.

      A depressing amount of people have a combination of ‘don’t rock the boat’ mentality and a belief that since something doesn’t/won’t affect them, then it doesn’t matter.

      • Bone@lemmy.world
        3·
        1 month ago

        That’s the nail on the head. It’s been a while since I’ve thought of that. Thank you.